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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Add support for project (Rancher) and cluster quotas (OpenShift)

A project quota in Rancher (see https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/v2.5/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/manage-proje[…]project-resource-quotas/about-project-resource-quotas) or cluster quota in OpenShift (see https://docs.openshift.com/con...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Retain filter when changing currency

When I change currency in ITP it removes my column filters.  Please retain column filters when changing currencies.
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Monthly Time Period Picker

I had originally reached out via Apptio Support, and it was suggested I bring this as an enhancement request. (Case # 00349544) When we have monthly time period as picker(January, February etc), When we select the random month from the picker, t...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Option to apply resize policies on groups of namespaces

When trying to "cleanup" the whole cluster it is pretty tedious to keep filtering by namespaces. So my workflow using Turbonomic is usually that I check the recommendations on the Turbo homepage to see where the needs for resizing are. I then crea...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 5 Not under consideration

Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Need HA capability in JDBC Gateway

Need HA capability in JDBC Gateway.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Synthetic monitoring enhanced permission

Viewer permission will be able to view the Synthetic monitoring configuration details that may contain a username/password to login to the application. Request to create enhanced permission or set up additional HBAC permission for this?
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Functionality already exists

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration